<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3157916.post6824421..comments</id><updated>2008-11-15T05:15:43.403-06:00</updated><category term='posts that assure that the author is safe and has not been kidnapped by goblins at all'/><category term='What on earth is this mystery about something happening in the crypt?'/><category term='Tokyo signing'/><category term='Bryan Talbot'/><category term='i will now close my eyes and when i re-open them it will be at least six hours into the future and i will be a year older'/><category term='Marmite'/><category term='Grave errors'/><category term='China'/><category term='Mark Chadbourn'/><category term='tee shirts'/><category term='heads that dissolve into light without explanation'/><category term='wordcounts'/><category 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